Chapter 6 - BEAUTIFUL PRESENCE

(BEAUTIFUL PRESENCE - continued)

Although Kevin believed to have been transported back to his dream again, there was something different about the man next to him. At first the man was wearing the same black tux he had on in his dream the first time, but then his clothes started to manifest by themselves, and in a few seconds he was wearing a white shirt with white pants all put together, with black shoes. the black sofa they ad been sitting on had dissappeared and they found themselves in a park, they were sitting on the green grass admiring the beautiful tree which was in front of them. it was the same tree from his dream, only this time the tree looked beautiful, majestic and firm. you could tell by the dark green colour of the leaves that the tree was healthy. There were flowers on that tree that Kevin had never seen before. and while Kevin was hooked by the weird nature of the flowers, he got up from where he was seated and started to approach the tree, holding out his right hand in order to touch the flowers. right when he was about to feel the petals o the flower the strange man interrupted him with, "Those are bleeding heart flowers, beautiful aren't they? Do you know the meaning those flowers represent?" And with a confused kind of look Kevin stared at the man, unable to truly grasp the situation he was in. He had never heard the man utter even a single word before this moment, yet the first thing he spoke about were mere flowers, yes they were rather beautiful, but their very first conversation together were just about flowers.

Kevin the proceeded to ask the the man a question, "What do you mean by 'represent', aren't flowers just a part of nature? how can there be an actual meaning for these flowers only?" The man who had been looking at Kevin while they spoke about the flowers, turned away from Kevin with rather charmed expressions and said, "There was once a belief that existed in the past about these types of flowers. rather than blooming from the top, their petals were placed very uniquely that they would open themselves from the bottom, giving the heart shape a sense of heart brake, more like they were bleeding rather than blooming. It was believed the pink coloured flowers would bloom as a sign of new love forming, while the violet coloured flowers would bloom from heart brake. But there was also black-coloured bleeding heart flowers as well, There is no definite reason for when those flowers would bloom. Would you like to know why the black-coloured flowers would bloom?"

Kevin smiled awkwardly not sure how to answer the man. The man then asked Kevin to take a walk with him through the garden, and Kevin obliged of course, not knowing how he should place himself. They walked in silence for a few minutes when the man started to increase the pace of his steps, the weather started to change suddenly, From the beautiful sunny day they had experienced to more calmer and cooler weather. they found a door in front of them, with no wall keeping it afloat, Yet it looked like it led to somewhere. The man opened the door and entered while holding the door open for Kevin to enter without any problems.

The door led to a place which had a vulgar odder, while being in pitch black, the path they walked on had a sort of light shinning on it, more like it was taking through the right path rather than letting loose their way. The man did not say much through the whole time they were on they were walking, and all of a sudden they stopped in front of a barren place which looked like an abandoned house, weirdly enough it looked exactly like the house Kevin had gone into with his friends, but this time the house looked run down and totally damaged.

When they entered the house, they found a flower which was placed in the middle of the room, it was a black flower which had a heart shape. Kevin shouted enthusiastically and said, "Black bleeding heart flower!!" And at that moment the man next to him looked at the flower with teary eyes and said, "This is where my home is." and that's when Kevin found himself back in the study where the books were and this time they book he had chosen before had disappeared, all that was left was a black petal.